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korean peninsula to the brink of war with. the trade. today. tens of thousands of egyptians are in cairo's iconic to rear square on the second anniversary of the start of the egyptian revolution you're looking at live pictures right here behind me they are not there though to celebrate they are there interest square where people are holding up mass rallies against the new government was just brought to power by the eighteen day uprising that toppled the longstanding rule of hosni mubarak but two years on egyptians are not seeing much

change as cairo based reporter held true in the polls. we have seen violent scenes already across our country to my right here just by some key government buildings like the cabinet building i catches continues between security forces and protesters and if you see him in the rough and i had reports of street battles happening in egypt second city and examined here between security forces and demonstrators two years ago people came to the streets of a back up of the injustice of that was a back regime here we are simply i am people are back on the streets saying it's see no change since b.c.b. upright if he doesn't even mean something to people about being in front of me and he was population by now living under the poverty line that in addition to teaching is the price of concessions and here he is struck by mr michael sitrick somebody that is not representative of egypt or behind me at the time seems to not sort of retreat seems to say they will not leave until president obama no see makes the

changes they want. and let's get some analysis of the situation in egypt let's talk to william engdahl joe political analyst and author of myths lies and oil wars good to have you want today egyptians seem to be at a boiling point once again we understandably you think they finally got the people in power they've been asking for but now they're all riled up all over again and what was the problem well the problem is this is a minority the muslim brotherhood it's the best organized force in the country after the toppling of mubarak. but the and it's backed by by while. the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing an islamic dictatorship with a minority a tiny minority of the actual voting age population and approving of something like eighty percent of the eligible voters voted for this constitution i'm so you talk about the constitution because of what i understand the to the two thousand and eleven revolution was started by those wanting

a socially equal secular state how did they end up with a constitution based on sure we alone well this was the cleric who target the brotherhood networks played on the situation they made a dirty deal with the military find the votes of the majority of the population and they're going against the interests of a secular state which is to my knowledge a majority of what the egyptian people want from egyptian friends of mine what they tell me and they're pushing through really radical changes that most egyptians want no part of in their lives they want a peaceful democratic life the economy is a shambles. under this morsi government really does you i mean you talk about the economy being in a state of shambles i certainly egypt is now on the brink did you think morsi is administration is it incapable or just and willing to do anything about it or that's a very good question but i think they're so preoccupied with this show real agenda this is a llama zation the creating this this earth

a state which de facto is emerging to be an islamic fascist regime a totalitarian regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real functioning of a common we so that the. problem in egypt right now that in the west and chiefly the u.s. will certainly as we all know what hailing the january twentieth revolution saying it was backing the people of egypt why do you think now it's not quite so enthusiastic about the current protests you alluded to a moment ago can you give us more on that well since the one nine hundred fifty s. the u.s. allegiance community has more. first i thought that it was in control of something called the muslim brotherhood when they brought them from each of the saudi arabia and i think the fog that you just bring up but also with the. mask it's hard to wash the five now that i'm not we. also know that they are. washed so i read some honest ability now will you very quickly when it

comes to issues of stability or the u.s. is supplying the egyptian government with warplanes starts no small commitment because washington certain that the current leadership will last then do you think i don't think so i don't think they have a plan b. i don't think i think the some people in washington are realizing well let's see if senator hagel becomes the next and secretary of the strata. i think that's why i'm. hoping that the brotherhood will bring stability. and i really mean the author and political analyst thanks for coming so quickly on our to today thank you thank you well for now france is spreading its presence beyond marley's borders is now standing for neighbor nigeria currently afraid the violence may spread and target uranium mines crucial to a french run the energy company certainly a lot more than just a bit later in the program. now a cia veteran and

a man who oversaw the capture of al qaeda is third in command is facing lead three years in jail during sentencing later today for leaking classified intelligence join a carrier crew who was the first to blow the whistle on washington's torture program later revealing the name of an alleged torture at guantanamo bay he was convicted on a law which hasn't been used in twenty seven years earlier this week kiriakou explained why he was driven to speak out. i've never gained anything from what i've said publicly that i've lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer who said torture was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and counterterrorism a very is a very tough arena i knew that there was a risk to what i was doing. but i also know that to be seeing another person and

serializing human rights abuses under a legal paper is not the american way and it's not something that as americans we should be engaged in we are not a lowest common denominator country measuring what is right by what others do and the american way stands for something and it is not torture i never tortured anybody. but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers are papered over it and the people who deceived it and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice. now the thirty month sentence that's being talked about as part of john kiriakou his plea deal but the judge could still return a fuse to settle for that i mean he could potentially face far greater time behind bars as would the accusations cia officer mcgovern believes them to be purely political. he's being punished out of range hypocrisy. look at the chronology here in two thousand and seven john kiriakou came out very loudly

against torture as being not worthy of the united states and not efficient not a way to get information what happened well the instructions were to get people to confess confess to what confess for the existence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq confess to the existence of operational ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein it was all a crock they had to make this stuff up and you can't get real flyable information from torture but you know what torture works beautifully if you want unreliable information and so they kind not only tired not only weapons of mass destruction but ties between iraq and and al qaeda and it was a masterful propaganda performance on the part of the united states on the part of the u.k. prime minister. and unemotional enough for me and my six officer who says that under obama the prosecution of whistleblowers has had record highs sundaes

currently swelling out of control. because it's the only thing you have. that if you are an important part of the crime you're going to get that it's not just don't agree. with the rest of us underestimate the bomb that. was put together so you three days and it's not about ten years it's about them and we think the current number. become very diverse that's a fact that we've received from the brits so. i think this is a common really it's hysterical reaction. and yet another counterterrorism effort by the u.s. is under the microscope the u.n. has launched an inquiry into the legality of using drones worldwide the investigation comes amid rising concern that the flurry of was dubbed terror strikes has done little to protect civilians rights activists suggest in pakistan

alone over a quarter of those killed by cia drone attacks are innocent bystanders. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years they're going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen of get a stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this has been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last

a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal. liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report was finally revealed in the months to come well as what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks and up killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in

recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that. he's an associate you're going to reporting right now the world's movers and shakers seeking a solution to the global financial abyss the ongoing davos economic forum all billions of dollars are being spent on making the state of the glitzy ski resort comfortable all those details coming up later this hour. north korea is warning of war saying it will attack south korea if its neighbor takes part in fresh u.n. sanctions or the ultimatum on the day of fiery rhetoric with pyongyang previously evolving more nuclear and ballistic tests james corbet editor of a news web site says the region could well be on the brink. joining it is an absolute wild card in this whole situation and it really is just an irrational

actor in the whole scene there in it it's been years now of carrots and sticks and neither of them seem to have any effect there seems to be periods of relative quiet and then periods of panic and threats and violence threats of violence and so far that it's failed to materialize into into very much on the korean peninsula but of course it's always possible that some sort of some incident could come out of this i don't think anyone even the north koreans really want to see that but i think it is a way of keeping focus on the region and keeping people coming back to the table with north korea but i don't think north korea is ultimately going to be the the actor that will have to be involved for a solution to this i think this is going to have to involve china at some point because they are the ones that are keeping north korea on an economic leash and a lifeline or you know. it's good to have you with us here and i see today talk about a rowdy russian flight where it wasn't exactly just the plane that was flying first small flying as well one of businessmen started

a scrap in the skies even threatening to kill the pilots and force an emergency landing details coming up in a few. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. this is artsy now the plight of the global economy fueled by europe's long running debt wires all of this is being polled over the years financial forum of the very ski resort of davos but just how much money is being spent to organize the gathering which is filled on the side with swish parties and lavish champagne dinners. if you'll be mrs cliff that offers. here in davos there's also of rich powerful people swarming around in design

a system pretty much telling the average citizen of the world that they need to be reigning in their spending while they themselves sit expensive champagne and dine on school romy kind of pace which to me seems rolled up which indeed you've also got companies pay the laying people off in the thousands pepsi for example they are here and they just laid off will an eight thousand people and if you fairmont it costs about two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars for a ticket to the davos economic four we've also got citi group as well and they too have laid off more than eleven thousand it just gives you an idea of what companies are spending their money on and all they spend you know on the right things we've also got u.c.b. president mario did ok essentially putting his fellow leaders on the spot because he says that the economic situation in europe is better than last year well that's pretty argonne it when you consider the problem we've got protests ongoing in greece writes unemployment historical highs of sixty percent that really sent

shivers down the spines really in davos yesterday prices just posted it is most of course it is doesn't sound too good it it's already tell that an owner let's talk about money and how much davos is going to cost we're talking one hundred eighty five million dollars that's going to be spent here the davos forum which described by the along to boris johnson as a constellation of egos involved in o'jays of our today show and i know sometimes he can be quite outlasts but in this instance you know what i think i agree with boris. times are forcing people in britain to think outside the box when it comes to making ends meet but one option which is proving increasingly popular is far from slavery coming up in just a few here look at how predatory money lenders are dragging the poorest and most vulnerable into a weapon. whole.

the dangerous mix and sort of proof for one high rolling russian businessman he said the headlines after a booze fuelled brawl at thirty thousand feet. tells the tale of mile high. it started out as an ordinary flights to one of the popular holiday destinations for many russians egypt so you can imagine the passengers are sitting there in their seats visualizing how they're going to be sunbathing just in a couple of hours but then suddenly the resent is interrupted by one very troubled past and. this man there we go appears to have had a little bit too much visualisation if you know what i mean started smoking in a laboratory then he attacked one of the passengers so the flight attendant tried stopping him he started attacking the flight attendant and he announced that he's a former member of the swat team he's also said that he was

a member of the deputy of the city duma a businessman all these things in one he was actually warned that his actions could be taken as a hijacking of the plane he said he didn't care if you threaten that he was going to kill all the passengers on the plane he said that he could do it with just his two fingers and then he said that he was going to try to land the plane himself on a water so the plane did land and. the staff staff passed him over to a local police in egypt but he was traveling with his wife and a three year old daughter who he held up and when he was detained the police well basically we released him just in a matter of minutes without actually pressing any charges but the good thing the police in russia are now waiting for him to come back since they do have this video they do have reports from all the witnesses so the story's not over yet but this does bring us to the question of how much alcohol should be given to passengers because this is far from the only case of flights erupting on board of flights and in some cases the passengers duty you have to take it in their own hands to calm

the passengers down like the one incident when the passengers walsall with the passenger was also quite aggressive they had to duct tape the guy to his seat he spent the entire transatlantic flight from iceland to the states like that but it's not always bad sometimes good things happen like this bill for. on board or for eight i don't know if alcohol was involved in this case but i guess if it was it wouldn't be that bad if every time it happened like that. that was artie's or going to school for the meantime i islamists in northern mali have reportedly blown up a strategic bridge blocking easy access from the area to neighboring nigeria now it's all after france boosted its presence in northern africa by deploying a special forces to nigeria it's a thought they've been sent there to protect your rainy a mines being run and owned by a french state company but have a look right here you can see some of them out for yourself further friendship to

say that the site in nigeria could become a target for african is the most militants who have threatened revenge on paris for the mali intervention against insurgents of both nigeria and mali a former french colonies and have natural resources that indeed the french energy sector is heavily dependent on middle east a blog called shero told us here at r.t. that france is right to fear the regional rep a caution for ventilation. both groups and the need to stop whining groups there's been lots of listens and i think it's because they're not sure the dynamics of the politics and the reason and i don't necessarily see. the impact of the french intervention towards pushing them towards a political settlement because they might be able to control a certain point of the forces over there but they're definitely have unleashed their forces don't have repercussions and gross west africa and north africa there was

a certain sort of precision and order does provide let's say for the last ten years which was able to contain the stain tensions and i think stand to which i think's going to go out of control and unfortunately the extent intervention in libya i think was very shortsighted and it was the question is thick and wanted to have a week in and out and didn't even consider what was going to happen i still was so i see a chain of events from under the attack on the american consulate in benghazi to the hostage taking in nigeria and to further destabilize. catalonia has declared its sovereignty via a vote in the region's parliament setting up a showdown with spain over a possible breakaway the gesture was largely symbolic though with madrid maintaining a referendum would not be legally binding and out of k. a spokesperson from the european partnership for independence says catalonia leaving could actually benefit both sides. does say that the correlation to what he

has done is just a form of nice something that democrats are running now and that is that catalonia is a suffering nation we just declared that was our soil money. we all know that's the case but for money that don't we are a political and the legal sovereign suction that's no way to progress when you are lads to be something that you are not and it was fun for young kids on young nations by the order we are not the spanish so it's a would be interest and it would be united when we are a separate set in good terms. while not everyone however is quite that optimistic carlos deck lost a sociologist at university he says catalonia is government has pursuing dangerous policies which may undermine the region's chances to go out and survive on its own . carnivals come really cheap and for the moment it's really just a bunch of posturing it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know.

when. the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized the water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is auctioning off the territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all of the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're auctioning them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia well for some time of me doing all they can to let the government know exactly how they feel a million of them flooded into boss alone a last year to stake a claim for independence you go to for more images from that event but we've got

more of the day stories lined up for you that will be after a short break. but we'll be continuing our program here on the two scuse me how tough times are pushing people in the u.k. to make hard decisions and more and more families are taking out so-called payday loans with huge interest rates to put money in their pockets. looks at exactly what's pushing people to turn to these companies. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days the northeast in particular has seen a big increase recently in the number of payday loans out there are popping up on the high streets now here in this part of the sunblock you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stalls but right next door. this area is one of the

poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. the working providing best advice states what takes just moments to a priest can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat of course it will continue on and then we're going. to try and pay off a period. saw the movies try one go first go on two quick quid i want to. hear and it's just a never ending cycle we would be one of the represents his leading payday loan provided why the industry seems to be lending say irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the

best assessment of somebodies affordability but these areas of the united kingdom and some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these members are setting up in secondary high streets where the breaks they're also setting up when there's a demand the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with the site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out the payday loan nor. the new or avoid them like the plague so r.t. reporting from sunderland. entrepreneur kim dotcom is back with a new website able to get around the bourse the saw its predecessor shut down by the u.s. government in just a second tells us exclusively about being chased by the state all about.

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